Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.

The fallacy of the “everybody does it defense”

I have to boast just a little bit. Despite driving for more than thirty years, I’ve never had a moving violation. I have heard, however, that if the highway patrol pulls you over for speeding, it’s no defense to point to the traffic passing you and the officer by, while exclaiming, “But everybody is speeding.” The officer’s appropriate response is “But you’re the one I caught.”

We all know this. And we all understand intuitively that having a society with a critical mass of criminal violations doesn’t mean the law is no longer valid. It may certainly mean the law should be revisited, because it’s damaging to have on the books a law practiced more in the breach than the observance. Nevertheless, if the law is on the books, if you’re the one caught, well, tough.

Someone needs to teach this to the whiners in the White House, who, having had their hands caught in the swampy depths of the Sestak and Romanoff scandals, are now complaining that “Reagan did it too.” Aside from the fact that Jake Tapper has exposed this “defense” for the blatant lie it is, the fact is that Reagan is dead and buried, and his alleged crimes, even if they had been true, are buried with him. Attention whiners: “We caught you. Tough.”

The way to stop a culture of corruption isn’t simply to have a pretty boy candidate promise that he’ll have a transparent administration. Nope. The way to stop a culture of corruption is to slam people who are corrupt. Let’s start slamming.

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I’d repeat a solution I spoke of before. Start executing, by hanging, a major percentage of the bureaucracy backing up political policies. Politicians are simply the fake heads on the real snake’s body.

It’s amazing how much government regulation and power you can cut down when the government is too busy burying and burning their appendages. In some cases, they don’t even have enough bureaucrats alive to bury the ones that are dead. Figure how much taxing they’ll be doing then.

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